1)The Robert courts rulings are usually in the benefit of the business interests and bad for the Obama administration. Some examples are the voting right act in which federal overseeing is required for states that are suspects of discrimination. Another is that the court made it hard to sue people the makers of dangerous drugs and employers accused of workplace discrimination.

2)A precedent is an earlier ruling made by the court that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances. Examples are largely found in the business cases where the court doesn't make new laws, and not allow plaintiffs to regulate them.

3)The president none existent success comes from the different ideologies that the courts have. A way that the president can mitigate the difference in ideology is by getting a new solicitor general that has more connection with the supreme courts members.

4)The justice that is considered to be easy to sway would have to be Justice Kennedy. Justice Kennedy has been know to affiliate with the four members of the conservative justice and also with the other four liberal justice. Because of him the health care act was passed and implemented however he also has allowed the conservatives to expand on the rights of the business over the people, showing the ability of people to sway him.

5) For the most part this article stays away from its opinion and biases. Al thought there are some clear instances where you can tell the authors of the article are liberal because they like to pull the gay marriage unfairness and condemns the Roberts Supreme court for not doing anything about it.

1. Who/what has been consistently favored in Roberts court decisions? Cite evidence to support your answer. The liberals since the liberal party is the majority than the conservative in the judicial court ruling over every conservative ruling of even small case.

2. What is precedent and in what ways has the Roberts court largely made rulings based on precedent? Precedent is the previous establishment of the previous case which affects the choice of the cases in the future. The rulings have gone towards the liberal sides making rules about certain laws that liberal party congress member rule upon to make of law.

3. What strategy(ies) might the President pursue to see greater success in the Court? The strategy that the president may use would be the media to cover the choices of the people to go to certain sides of the choices that the judicial branch makes upon the laws to be passed by the rule of four.

4. Which Justice is considered the “swing vote” on the court and why? Justice Kennedy is the "swing vote" because there is already a 4 to 4 ratio of the conservative and liberal which Kennedy makes the 6 to 6 judicial vote.

5.Is there discernible bias in the way this article was written? Why, or why not? The article was written in the view of a conservative to help decrease the help many liberals receive in their vote to the upcoming laws that are against many of Obama's choices of laws that he will or will not veto against the court ruling.

1.) Who/what has been consistently favored in Roberts court decisions? Cite evidence to support your answer.

In Roberts court decisions conservatives have been favored and he has shown a large attachment to things which he feels are planting new seeds in the justices and discusses them as a new plant.

2. What is precedent and in what ways has the Roberts court largely made rulings based on precedent?

A precedent is when an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances. The Roberts court has largely made rulings based on precedent which favor businesses and which choose to push forward older laws.

3. What strategy(ies) might the President pursue to see greater success in the Court?

The President might pursue attempting to persuade the justices on issues with a more liberal view. This would help as the Roberts court takes the extra votes in order to gain their votes. This would help the President to see greater success in the court.

4. Which Justice is considered the “swing vote” on the court and why?

The Justice which would be considered the “swing vote” in the court would be Kennedy because he tends to vote both ways and he is typically the deciding vote.

5. Is there discernible bias in the way this article was written? Why, or why not?

No there is no discernible bias in the way this article was written because it presents the facts and doesn’t bring in much of an opinion while giving information on both sides instead of only one.

Video on msnbc.com: The age-old practice of politicians re-drawing Congressional districts to find friendly voters, or, gerrymandering, has allowed members of the House of Representatives from both sides of the aisle to stay in power regardless of...

The founding father Alberge Gary drew a salamander looking district in 1912 to win the elections. This happens every two years house members get reelected. They gave an electronic randomize that would set district line by using algorithms that are based on geography and population. This would deny them getting to set district boundaries to win majority in the house every two years. But it would also give an advantage to the other party as well. Yeah the people don't get to say much. It is mainly the politician in the background who are controlling the process. This isn't a true representative system just like the electoral college.

gerymandering is the act of redrawing a district and its has gotten its name from Albridge Garry who redrew a district in the beginning of our country in order for him to win a vote. The redrawing of the districts almost guarantees a win in voting because it allows the politicians to choose their voters. In the video, suggested possible solutions to gerrymandering would be to redraw district lines according to geography, demographics, and population density but it would cause a disruption in the current system and would make it very difficult for a representative to be reelected to a district that doesn't have the same advantages. Gerrymandering can be compared to the electoral college because these systems don't work in the favor of the public, or the majority vote because with the representatives picking the districts containing people they know will vote for them along with the electoral college being able to override the public vote, it has caused question in the democratic system of the United States.

The term gerrymandering comes from an 1810 law that was created by Elbridge Gerry, Governor of Massachusetts, which repositioned and defined congressional districts based on population changes. After the law was passed, newspaper articles came out with pictures of the re-drawn districts in concerning shapes, such as a salamander. They linked the two words “salamander” and “Gerry” and called it gerrymandering. As time has gone on, gerrymandering has been manipulated by both the Republican and Democratic parties by them re-drawing districts specifically to change the possible outcome of their “political cartoon” if you will. House seats are being re-apportioned every presidential election year. The video suggested that these means of politics have made it so that “the politicians are choosing their voters, rather than the voters choosing their politicians”. This is causing major distrust in candidates and decrease in voter participation. Gerrymandering has been beneficial to incumbents because they change their districts to work in favor of their election. Both the Electoral College and gerrymandering can be seen as unfair or corrupt government practices because they can sometimes both not accurately depict the peoples' votes by changing their districts. With the Electoral College, they could win a majority of the electoral votes, but not the majority vote. With gerrymandering, a politician would be elected just because of the re-drawn, manipulated districts, which is ridiculous.

1) I think the media is looking for a candidate that's is popular with the people. So one who can appel to the citizens. Also some one who is photogenic. I definatly think that this applies for both parties, however the republicans are not doing a very good job as Clinton is.2) I honestly think he dies t really care about the platform the candidates are running on. Sure he does mention here and there but if he actually cared, he would have mention playforms for every single candidate. Which he did not.3) Permenante presidential campaign means that in today's world, filled with technology that can infor the people of everything in a moments notice, that people are canpaning all the time. Knowing or not. This I think is a good thing because it lets us see how candidates really are.4) I think there is and isn't at the same time. Some addvantages include more exposure and getting more backing. However people will get sick if you are in the spot light too much. The more exposure is also a double edg sword. It doesn't have to be good exposure.

1. Based on this article, what would you say that the media is looking for in an ideal candidate for 2016? Is it the same for both parties? The conservitave side is the new side that has been wanting to be used and hired for the new seat of the White House. The conservitive side is wanted for the both parties to maybe have a chance to help control the economy.

2. To what extent is Sabato focused on the issues (platform) of the candidates? What the disadvantages and advantages are for the runnign canidates for the points they they will attack and what they will focu on.

3. Sabato refers to the “permanent presidential campaign.” What does this mean, and what are the implications for government? The permanent campaign is the non stop of action being attacked. The new canidates will keep running for their own worries and ideas, not for the people.

4. Do you think that there is an advantage to being identified as an early leader in the presidential race? Why or why not? Yes, the earlier you come out, the earlier your ideas spread to the people about your campaign run.

The media is looking for both a woman candidate to run for the Democraticparty and someone fresh who has not been in the spotlight. because of this they have been keeping their eye on Hilary Clinton. However for the Republican Party, the media is looking for a clear-cut candidate as they let the scandals fall as they may. Sabato is not very interested on the party platforms of candidates, but rather their popularity and faults. He is making broad assumptions of each possible candidate and listing the general pros and cons of each.Sabato describes the permanency of campaigns by acknowledging that campaigning is a continuous process. He seems to imply that it is a good thing, and it allows voters to be more informed and aware of possible candidates.It is not an advantage to be identified early as a leader in the presidential race because this puts the candidate in the media spotlight. It also creates boredom in voters as they tire of constantly seeing information on a particular candidate.

So far, the media seems to be looking for candidates with successful political record, is liked by the public and their party, and isn’t too harsh on their views but also isn’t too loose. These credentials seem to be the same for both parties. They as well want a candidate with a good political record and popularity vote.Sabato is less concerned with their political platforms, because they can easily be changed, and more with their political experience and records and financial capabilities.Sabato’s reference to the “permanent presidential campaign” means that candidates now are more concerned with their media coverage and appearances when campaigning themselves. The government itself has become increasingly concerned with the media and its perception of what happens in the government and with running candidates. This causes some candidates to change their political platforms to fit what they think the media will want, which has caused some of them to become less popular.I think that there is an advantage to being known as an “early leader” in the presidential race because the leaders are the ones who other candidates will form their candidacies around. Other candidates will sway their opinions and fit what they think fits to the media and what the media wants rather than what they believe. This would not be as big of a problem for early runners because they start out on top because of their political ideologies and then gain media support, not the other way around.

Texas remains a Republican-leaning state because its white residents are becoming increasingly Republican and its large Hispanic population, though solidly Democratic, is less so than Hispanics nationally.

1) Democrats are hopeful of a party realignment because of the large population of Hispanics. Throughout the country majority of Hispanics lean Democratic. This couple with the ever increasing of the Hispanic population makes the Democratic party hopeful for a future change.

2) Party identification in Texas for the Hispanic population is slightly increasing towards the republican, contrary to the left side. However, the majority of Hispanics still lean to the Democratic support. But there is a trend in the Democratic party of decreasing Hispanic support, not only in Texas but in the nation also.

3) Although most of the current Hispanic population of Texas is leaning left to the Democratic party, there is still a large majority of non-Hispanic that are self affiliated with the republican party.Also a majority of Hispanic do not vote. This coupled with the slight lean of Hispanic slight support changing from Democratic to Republican, the article tells us, that a party re aliment is improbable. It important to vote.

4) They conducted a random sample of 178,527 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia for the nationalized sample.This was done over the phone. They also gave and took into consideration the percent error. The people asked also were weighted to correct for unequal selection probability, non response, and double coverage of land line and cell users in the two sampling frames.

1. Democrats are looking forward that with an increase in Hispanic pop. the state may have enough Democratic votes to turn the state blue. Generally speaking, Hispanics are Democratic. As more minorities flock to America, whites are becoming a minority and may lose their typical Republican hold in Texas.<br>2. Whites are very Republican, while their Hispanic friends are mostly Democratic. In terms of the rest of the country, however, the Hispanics in Texas have more Republicans than elsewhere.

3 Gallup believes that Texas will not experience political realignment, the reason being Texas Hispanics are more likely not to vote. Although they hold opinions, but their lack of hands on political participation prevents Texas from being a blue state.<br> <br>4. The poll has a 1% error because the pollers checked to see if half of the surveys over cell and the other half over landline calls and then the surveyed at random..then there is the spanish polling,

The Democrats are slowly taking over texas because the minorities in texas are growing in numbers and the majority of the minorities fully support the Democrats. Though Texas is mostly Republican, Democrats are hoping this population change will change texas into a Democratic state. Keeping that in mind, many Hispanics are not registering to vote and because of that the minorities aren't necessarily able to vote and represent themselves when the majority votes more than the minority. This is a prime example of how participation can change the outcome of an election. The data from this article was taken by random phone call surveys by an equal number in each group asked

1.The NRA are exercising its influence on politics by making some Democrats vote "no" for the appointment of Dr. Vivek H. Murthy. They are doing this by not supporting and campaigning against some Democrats senator in states where the race is very close. They are worried, because of Dr. Vivek views, that he will have some kind of influence on making anti gun policies.

2.If the senators don't comply with the NRA wishes, the NRA will not supporting and campaigning against them in election that are pretty near from today. This could mean a loss in a very tight race for some Democrat senators.

3. The president gets to choose who he want in a certain organization. In this case the organization in hand is surgeon general. Although he gets to pick a person to run that organization, first congress must approve of this. This is where the Mr.Obama is having some difficulties.

4.The white house could try to negotiate something with the NRA head of staff and convince them that this guy will not try to create law regarding gun control. Or they could agree for the government to give support to the group. They also could swap this guy for someone that's less vocal about their gun view points. That they don't actually need all the support, just enough to get the majority.

1. They sent out a "grass roots alert" to millions of people so they would tell their senators to not vote for the President's nominee . They don't like the fact that the nominee is extremely against guns.

2. democrats may lose control of the Senate because Senators are voting differently then they normally would because of the NRA .

3. The President chooses the positions of people.

4. they could hold Obama's vote for surgeon general or take out the nomination from the position. they need balance nominees in order to have support from both parties.

The NRA is influencing members of congress by personally emailing the voters and trying to rally members against the Surgeon General because they don't agree with his views on gun control and many other issues. The senators reelection is at stake and if they vote with gun control, they will lose the support of the NRA. From this incident, the White House should definitely learn to choose a more fitting person to represent, one that preferably agrees with the policies of the NRA.The white house learned to approach nominations differently in order to recieve better feedback

The NRA is concerned about the appointment of nominee Murthy because he is actively against guns. They are going directly to citizens addressing them about the nominee and asking their opinion and going to senate, trying to get the nominee removed. The NRA are concerned that if the nominee is appointed, the gun-bans in the nation will go up, decreasing their value.The Senate is trying to maintain democratic leadership by listening to their constituents which, in states such as Alaska, Louisiana, and Arkansas, are opposed to gun-banning, which puts them against the nominee.The White House try to choose candidates who will help keep a mostly equal view on arguments and won’t anger any interest groups, such as the NRA, so there won’t be a lack of executive control or support.The White House should consider what is really good for the nation and what candidates are right for the job, rather than trying to please everyone. It is impossible, especially in politics, to please everyone, so they should try to think about what the candidate can offer to the executive process and what they can possibly change. The White House learned that they tend to overestimate democratic support and lean more toward their constituents than the rest of the nation.

1)The founding fathers did not want congress to have too much power in electing the president. However they also did not want to let the people choose because they're uneducated or will pick people from local regions and not have a decisive majority and giving to much power to the states with bigger population.

2) The candidates go for the big states and hope to get the majority. These states California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio,Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia. Safe states allow candidates to not be as active in that community because they are sure they will get their vote in the electoral college.

3) If there is a tie or none of the candidates gets the require 270 votes to win the election, the House of Representatives gets to decide who wins.Each states House delegation can cast one vote for one of the top three candidates.

4) The 2000 election put a spot light on the electoral college because even though candidate Al Gore won the popular vote in the united states, Bush got elected president. This is because of the winner take all system place in the electoral college. This cause people to wonder if they were really getting represented.

5) Honestly I am not a fan of the electoral college. However if i were to decide if i were to keep it or to get rid of it, I would defiantly keep the electoral college. This mainly because I cant think of a away to replace the problem without out sourcing the smalls states.

More Americans today are satisfied with where the nation stands on acceptance of gays and lesbians, federal taxes, and healthcare availability than were satisfied in 2001. But Americans' satisfaction with the economy has declined.

1)Yes of the historical events have changed the public opinion. One example that the article give is the whole 9/11 and terrorist attacks. With the increase military surveillance on planes and all other laws to combat terrorism, people feel like they're better protected than before. Another thing that links historical events to the difference in opinion is world affairs with the invading of Afghanistan and ect.

2)Yes it does match up with what the book has informed us on the views of libertarians and conservatives. Two example that the article gives to prove my statement is the gun control laws. A majority of republicans are happy with the current gun control laws. However only 30 percent of democrats are happy with the gun laws. Another topic of that the article mention was the quality of the environment. With most Republican thinking that global warming is not a problem, we can see a large difference between the Democrats and the republicans.

3) If i had to guess the most likely public policy changes in the near future are going to be thing that both the Republicans and Democrats are no satisfied with. Thing that fall under this category are items such quality of public education, the nation effort to deal with poverty and homelessness and laws that will help the end of discrimination gays and lesbians.

4) The four percent error is that four percent of the population probably was not represented. This is because the multiple views that America has. This is not really going to affect my view on the article mainly because two things, which are that I am probably parts of the 90 percent that was represented in the pool. Also that almost everything has a percent error even science and I have learned to trust science.

1. The historical events of the period have greatly affected the results of this poll. 9/11 and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan have changed American approval of our standing in the world and our foreign affairs for the worse. The end of the dot com boom and the beginning of the 2008-2009 recession significantly alterered people's views of the economy. They now disapprove of the state of the economy significantly more than in the past.

2. For the most part these results coincide with democratic and republican views. Republicans show more approval of the state of the environment and gun policy while Democrats show more approval of social policies such as the legalization of gay marriage and Social Security and Welfare programs. I found it interesting that the two parties' approval of many issues such as quality of public education and quality of medical care are almost the same. Republicans show less concern for the environment and they do not support stricter gun laws, so these approval ratings make sense. Democrats endorse more support of scoial issuessuch as gay marriage and more government sponsored programs for the people to use. Their support of gay marriage and socil securoty and welfare makes sense. I believe both parties share the same approval or dissaproval on some issues because most people are moderate but call themselves a democrat or republican. Most take a republican view on most things and a democratic on others or vice versa.

3. Democrats will more likely favor policies such as the affordable health care act and support social welfare programs.Republicans will favor policies that involve less government control such as tax cuts and less strict gun laws.

4. This means that the data taken could be a lot closer than what is seen. Issues where the ratings seperated by 8% could lead to actual results of the same approval rating. This completely changes the readers' view on data taken over energy policies and federal taxes. Some of the data is so close that when the percentage error is taken into acoount, democrats may have more approval of an issue than republicans or vice versa. This can be seen in data taken for control of crime, quality of medical care, and race relations.

Rescoop to your own page and write a reflection on the reading in which you answer the following questions - by class time on Monday, 2/24!

1. The article explains why Gallup chose a 13-year comparison. Do the historical events of this period explain the changes in public opinion? Why or why not? Yes it does since the change of ideas and problems to change first. The the shift in problems for others have shifted from governmental taxation to Gay and Lesbian rights of marriage.

2. Examine the chart comparing Democrats' and Republicans' levels of satisfaction. Do these results coincide with your expectations (based on the textbooks' depiction of American liberalism and conservatism)? Why or why not? Yes they do since the republicans have their own likes and dislikes and vice-versa, for the democrats. The changes and laws placed that are new will effect the mind shifts of the people of the certain party that would affect their future.

3. Based on these results, which public policy changes are likely to be supported by each party? The Military and terrorist defensive increased by both parties to lessen the fear of their lives. The future and safety of the country is their first priority.

4. The sampling error for this poll is +/- 4%. What does this mean, and how might it impact your interpretation of the data presented? It isn't too much of a sampling error that affects the data by the error. The 4% doesn't effect much of the side i believe in as i see the data well built in how the percentage of the both parties was taken.

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